"Colshire Speaks" Column Featuring Luisa Irao de los Reyes

This clipping, published on March 18, 1971, is from a column titled "Colshire Speaks" in a company newspaper for Colshire of California. Luisa Irao de los Reyes worked in a Colshire factory manufacturing elastic waistlines for pants. The clipping features an interview with Luisa in which she spoke about her husband, Juan "Johnny" de los Reyes as an "old timer," her childhood in Aklan, Philippines during World War II, the ways that the Vietnam War adversely affected the cost of living, and her life in Watsonville. The newspaper clipping is pasted in a family photograph album that Luisa created.

Colshire of California

Colshire of California

3/18/1971

Joanne de los Reyes-Hilario

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Newspaper Clipping